The Chinese raws are here, as usual.
Mugi reflects over last night's confession while cooking in the kitchen, unable to believe what just happened. She randomly starts singing out of excitement when Iori shows up. He says that it's great that things worked out with Kazuya, and also adds while leaning closer, "I originally planned that if things didn't work out between you two, I'd steal you away myself..."
Just then Kazuya appears, arms crossed. "Iori," he says, and Iori backs off. Mugi tries to explain that nothing happened, but all Kazuya says is, "I know."
Mugi is just thinking how calm Kazuya seems, asking him what he's doing here, when Kazuya looks around before kissing her straight on the mouth. (Can I hear you say, kyaaa~?!)
Kazuya: I'm not calm at all. (Lol, so now he can suddenly read her thoughts? XD) I actually came here to check whether you're really mine or not.
(And I love how that fringe so cleverly disguises his blush, hahaha~)
Cue Sei saying, "Hey, what are you guys doing?" The two break apart hastily as Sei starts acting like a kid, circling around them asking the same thing over and over. Finally, he tells them that since they were so lost in their own little world, they didn't notice there was a phone call waiting for them. Turns out to be RBM (the journalist from before).
Apparently, Drug Guy is looking for a tape that Andou brought with him when he ran away. (How old is this manga?) He didn't know the contents of the tape, only that he was supposed to find it. The only thing they know for sure is that Andou's and Mugi's sister's disappearance is a key clue to this predicament.
I don't really get the next part to 100%, but apparently RBM can think of two more clues within the school. (I'm not sure if he's talking about clues or culprits, but it's key people regardless.) One, there are Andou's former friends in his gang (?), and secondly, there's his (high-class?) ex-girlfriend. Even though they know their way of communication, they can't reach them by phone (okay, this manga is old), and because they [the enemies] don't trust RBM, he can't get more information from them either. Because they don't know the enemy's power/strategy, they can't try to spy on their phone calls, because if they're find out, they'll surely be gotten rid of.
Mugi thinks back about her own death threat and thinks, "That's right... that's the kind of people our enemies are."
RBM wants them to cooperate so they can split up the work. He's going to do research on the ex-girlfriend and asks Mugi to take care of the board. Mugi seems surprised (what did she expect? @_@) but RBM tells her that since things are already like this, they need to hurry up and take action. Mugi starts getting nervous thinking about how much the enemies can have already accomplished when Kazuya takes her hand. "I'm coming too, so don't worry."
Mugi calms down at this, and Asaki, sitting some distance away looking at them, starts smiling. Just then Sei uses some weird cannon-like toy to shoot a mini toy soldier at Asaki's head, resulting in a playful fight. (Aww, I'm a sucker for bromance!)
Kazuya says they are to leave straight away. He has already gotten the tickets and that whatever they may need, they can buy there. He smiles/smirks at Mugi, "I already told you, regardless of what it is, I'll always help you. Who do you think I am [to you]?"
Mugi gets all shy and wants to say "my boyfriend", but ends up saying, "--You're Kazuya-kun."
Kazuya and Mugi arrive someplace which, according to whatever research Kazuya did, fits the description/map/whatever. Mugi mentions how it doesn't look like it'd be a building a gang would own. It's apparently a convenience store/video rental. The building used to be the gang's (I'm rather confused is they mean 'gang' or 'club', as this word is usually used for 'club', but it doesn't fit into the context, but we can also presume it can be referring to whatever Andou used to be in charge of). They're now looking for the landlord as it should presumably be the same person.
They talk with some random worker who used to know Andou. He didn't know the hardships Andou had been put through, as they rarely talked before, but now have lost contact completely. However, a year ago, Andou suddenly sent a video tape to him telling him "Please take care of this". He put the video tape in the storage room, but other workers have messed it up with other video tapes put there ever since, so it's now one huge mess. He knows for sure the tape is there though, as they never throw tapes away. All Kazuya and Mugi can do is start searching themselves.
Mugi gets all riled up about searching through the unlabeled video tapes and trips over herself, resulting in Kazuya calling her an idiot. At the end of the day, they have about 30 tapes they want to take home. Kazuya also wants to borrow some machine (assuming here they mean a VCR, but don't they have that already? ^^;). The night falls as they sleep over at a nearby inn, but have to share a room. Mugi freaks out as Kazuya tells her to go take a bath (also adding, "And properly wash your feet, too!", lol)
As she comes out of the bath, Kazuya tells her to give him her foot. Mugi starts blushing and freaking out (just how is "give me your foot" erotic, I ask you xD), but it turns out all Kazuya wanted to do was put a band-aid over the bruise she got from falling over in the video rental earlier. So he bends down to her foot with a soft (well, as soft as you can get from Kazuya, anyway) facial expression.
Kazuya: This inn's hot spring water is known for being soothing [to injuries]. Didn't you hear me say to wash your foot properly earlier?
Mugi: Ah... (becomes red in the face) Ahahahaha!
Kazuya: You probably thought of something weird, right? Idiot-- (flicks her forehead) Don't worry.
After that cute moment, they proceed to watch the movies for the rest of the night. Cue some really funny panels where Mugi cries to one movie and tries to imitate a boxer's pose to another. They're at the ninth movie when Kazuya says he wants to go to bed. That's when they suddenly see a tape of what looks like a man at an auction showing an audience a violin in its case. "Galnerius...?!" Mugi says. (It's the violin from earlier chapters that Sei pointed out was a fake, in case you don't remember.)
Kazuya points out you can clearly see the face of the seller, who turns out to be Sakuragi-sensei. He adds that Andou's disappearance would have meant they quieted down this occurence. The biggest possibility is that those guys from earlier [referring to Drug Guy etc] were the school board's own hired thugs. He calls RBM to share the news, leaving Mugi to ponder this on her own.
Mugi's thoughts: "These things... the auction of the lost Galnerius, Andou's and onee-chan's disappearance, and also, Shoukei High's connections...
The unknown (?) murders... the death cases... don't tell me... it was because of this that even mom and dad...?
And now I'm going against the same opponent..."
Kazuya glances at her tense poise over the shoulder, as Mugi thinks to herself: "But I have to do this..."
Kazuya suddenly turns off the lights and hugs Mugi from behind. He tells her to stop worrying and not to be afraid. He's here, so he'll protect her. Once again, Mugi calms down. She asks him when he started liking her.
Kazuya: "...I probably already started liking you from the very first beginning.
Meeting you, and getting to know you, only made my interest in you grow. And living with you resulted in me liking you more and more.
I always watched you [as in taking notice of her], regardless if you were laughing or crying.
I wanted to help you, hoping you'd lean on me, because I really [the last part is blurred T.T].
When you were sad, I was very happy to be the one by your side..."
Mugi thinks about how she's so happy that she can cry, and that this probably is what it means to really love someone. She can finally understand the feelings of her sister, the smile she had on the photo with Andou... what it means to not only be by yourself anymore...
"I... --Kazuya-kun, I like you," she says again, and they kiss as she thinks about how happy she is that she fell in love with Kazuya.
Cut to morning when they leave. Kazuya calls her name and Mugi answers, "Yeah." She thinks how she doesn't need to be afraid anymore and how Shoukei High holds the key [to this mystery].
- CHAPTER 24 END -
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Full House Kiss Ch 23
You can read the Chinese raws here.
The chapter begins with Mugi's narration: "A heart that can't stop beating--I can hear the sound of Kazuya-kun's heartbeats, or maybe they are mine, beating very fast. But... this kind of heartbeat... is a heartbeat of relief..."
Kazuya: .....
Kazuya's hand starts getting off Mugi's back.
Mugi: ---....Kazuya-kun, I... I... ah! (Thinking: Why...) That is... (Even though I'm already relieved, my heart can't seem to stop beating...?)
Kazuya: Suzuhara...?
Sei and Asaki are still looking for Mugi when Sei sees Kazuya and Mugi from afar, looking like a pair of lovers as they gaze at each other. He glances over his shoulder at Asaki and then suddenly exclaims, "Hanekura! I hear voices from over there!" (He points in the opposite direction) "Don't look over here, it's over there!" (Finally I get some bromance n__n)
As Asaki frantically demands where and starts fighting with Sei, Mugi and Kazuya overhear their argument and Mugi pushes him away with an apology. She runs back to the guys as Kazuya is left behind, staring at his hand that just held her. As the three reunite, Asaki glances at Kazuya in the distance getting off the ground.
The others tell Mugi the culprit has been caught. But she wants to interrogate him about her sister before he's handed into the police. Asaki comments how journalists are good at that stuff, cue appearance of a random bearded guy. RBM (Random Bearded Guy) apparently looked up to Andou or something along those lines.
Drug Guy* refuses to say anything about Andou, and RBM pulls his hair. Just then, the school intercom asks Mugi and La Prince to show up. The journalist tells them to return and says he'll definitely find out about Mugi's sister's and Andou's matters, and that he'll get in touch with her when he does so.
After they leave, RBM promises not to hand Drug Guy over to the police if he tells him about Andou and Mugi's sister. And that he'll get that information out of him anyway, no matter what methods he needs to use!
Cue La Prince showing up at school and told to hurry up the preparations. Some megane freshman explains to Mugi that at the eve of every year's school festival, the four members of La Prince picked by the student body will be announced. The four of them have been La Prince ever since they were freshmen themselves. Then Kazuya enters the stage.
You can read the rest of the chapter summary done by elove53 at MF here ^^
* = My personal name for the guy who drugged that girl at the club, and also the one who kidnapped Mugi in the last chapter.
The chapter begins with Mugi's narration: "A heart that can't stop beating--I can hear the sound of Kazuya-kun's heartbeats, or maybe they are mine, beating very fast. But... this kind of heartbeat... is a heartbeat of relief..."
Kazuya: .....
Kazuya's hand starts getting off Mugi's back.
Mugi: ---....Kazuya-kun, I... I... ah! (Thinking: Why...) That is... (Even though I'm already relieved, my heart can't seem to stop beating...?)
Kazuya: Suzuhara...?
Sei and Asaki are still looking for Mugi when Sei sees Kazuya and Mugi from afar, looking like a pair of lovers as they gaze at each other. He glances over his shoulder at Asaki and then suddenly exclaims, "Hanekura! I hear voices from over there!" (He points in the opposite direction) "Don't look over here, it's over there!" (Finally I get some bromance n__n)
As Asaki frantically demands where and starts fighting with Sei, Mugi and Kazuya overhear their argument and Mugi pushes him away with an apology. She runs back to the guys as Kazuya is left behind, staring at his hand that just held her. As the three reunite, Asaki glances at Kazuya in the distance getting off the ground.
The others tell Mugi the culprit has been caught. But she wants to interrogate him about her sister before he's handed into the police. Asaki comments how journalists are good at that stuff, cue appearance of a random bearded guy. RBM (Random Bearded Guy) apparently looked up to Andou or something along those lines.
Drug Guy* refuses to say anything about Andou, and RBM pulls his hair. Just then, the school intercom asks Mugi and La Prince to show up. The journalist tells them to return and says he'll definitely find out about Mugi's sister's and Andou's matters, and that he'll get in touch with her when he does so.
After they leave, RBM promises not to hand Drug Guy over to the police if he tells him about Andou and Mugi's sister. And that he'll get that information out of him anyway, no matter what methods he needs to use!
Cue La Prince showing up at school and told to hurry up the preparations. Some megane freshman explains to Mugi that at the eve of every year's school festival, the four members of La Prince picked by the student body will be announced. The four of them have been La Prince ever since they were freshmen themselves. Then Kazuya enters the stage.
You can read the rest of the chapter summary done by elove53 at MF here ^^
* = My personal name for the guy who drugged that girl at the club, and also the one who kidnapped Mugi in the last chapter.
Full House Kiss Ch 22
Read the Chinese raws here.
The chapter begins with Mugi reflecting on what has happened. It's the day of the school festival. Asaki drops by and at first, they act awkward around each other, but he offers to take her around the school festival. She objects at first, saying she's a teacher, but he tells her to enjoy herself since she's younger than him, and that she should just see it as accompanying him. She agrees and thanks him.
Cut to scene with Iori and Sei. Iori thinks of Kazuya and says, "...That's why I told you to act upon it earlier", then Sei appears. Iori tells him that if he's looking for Mugi, she's walking around with Asaki. Sei explains that that is why he is here, to waste time because if he does something now, she'll feel messed up and torn between them, and that is just too pitiful. Iori warns him that he might just be bidding his time himself. Then Iori treats him to some flavored tea and Sei wonders to himself why they [Mugi and Asaki] can't hurry and finish up already.
Meanwhile, there's an awkward silence between Mugi and Asaki as they walk around. Suddenly, a random girl faints due to a too (bright? good-looking? Something along those lines, anyway) guy. They turn around and find Kazuya being the host for an old lady in their host club-themed classroom. Mugi and Asaki exclaim, "Kazuya-kun?! / Midou?!" at the same time and thus, draw attention to themselves. Kazuya sees them and there's a tense atmosphere as Asaki tells Mugi they should go elsewhere.
However, a classmate of Asaki's appears at that time and drags him back to his own classroom as they need to prepare themselves. Kazuya excuses himself from his customer and asks Mugi if he can see her for a minute. (With Mugi saying, "Ah, does Midou-san have something to discuss with me?")
The two of them go elsewhere and start fighting. Kazuya scolds her for being too careless and going on a date in the middle of the school with a student, saying her cover will be blown. Mugi says they were just walking around and thinks to herself how it has happened before, but Kazuya is suddenly making such a big deal out of it. Then Kazuya goes ahead to badmouth Asaki about being so careless as well, and Mugi becomes mad, saying he did nothing wrong. She then retorts that Kazuya did the same with an old lady just now, and Kazuya says that that was just because they asked him to do that and he had no other option.
Then Mugi starts yelling about how he shouldn't say things like that when Asaki was just seeing things from her point of view and trying to make her feel better (or something like that), and Kazuya, angry (and jeaaalousss xD) retorts, "Of course I don't understand you! All you ever do is mess around!" [As in 'acting impulsively without thinking', not 'mess around with guys']
Then this dialogue happens (man, I love when Mugi is raging xD):
Mugi: --What's that supposed to mean... your point is, as long as I only do things you say, it'll all be fine?!
Kazuya: ...!! That's right, then things don't have to be so tiring for me!
Mugi: Why do you have to act so high and mighty?! I don't care about you anymore! Kazuya-kun is a big idiot!! (throws some random statue at his head)
Kazuya ducks and says something like, "Do you intend to kill me?!" (Lol, he reminded me of Kyouhei from Perfect Girl Evolution for a minute there)
Mugi runs away, crying, and berating Kazuya in her head for not understanding her and acting that way. She then goes ahead to glomp Shirotama (one of the doves) and starts whining about Kazuya. She suddenly overhears somebody saying, "That is just going too far! It's not like you say at all!!"
Two guys are fighting. One of them mentions he was just following orders, whereas the other one is upset since he said that his father wouldn't lend them money if he hurt their little sister and how his mother was already ill. The other guy retorts something about him being stupid.
Mugi suddenly realizes it was the guy from the fire accident who drugged her sister's acquaintance and how he was probably connected to her sister. She wonders what he's doing here when he isn't even a student of this school, and how this is bad since he probably plans to do something dangerous [as he's a dangerous person]. She tries to escape to tell somebody, but he stops her and says, "You really know how to interfere, sen...sei!"
He kicks her down when Sakuragi-sensei appears. She asks him what he plans to do about her. He retorts that he's following orders from somebody more higher-ranked than Sakuragi-san [referring to sensei's father, the director of the school board]. He says that this is a good chance of getting rid of Mugi and says (in a mocking manner), "Sorry to disturb you." Sakuragi-sensei looks troubled, cut to Asaki sitting in his classroom seeing the guy carrying away Mugi. One of his classmates remarks how it's weird that Mugi is not picking up her phone, and Asaki rushes out to where he saw Mugi being carried off. Then Sei looks out of a window and says, "Hanekura--? What's the matter?"
Kazuya is thinking about how Mugi yelled at him and keeps muttering responses to what she said to himself (I really lol'ed at this part xD) when Iori appears and calls him out. The others tell him that Mugi was kidnapped, and Asaki mentions that she was unconscious. Sei tells them the phone calls can't get through, and Kazuya mentions how she wouldn't turn off her phone, nor is there an area in school where you can't get a signal. The phone emits an automated message of how they can't connect to the user.
Meanwhile, we see a foot standing on Mugi's broken cell phone. Mugi is unconscious when the guy from before wakes her up. He introduces himself as the ex-boyfriend of the girl whom he drugged (I don't know his Japanese name, so I'll just call him Drug Guy). Drug Guy says that he originally wanted to resolve things in a calmer manner, but sensei [Mugi] just appeared at a really bad time.
Mugi demands to know his motives. Drug Guy simply answers teasingly that he has many. He hates the students of Shoukei High, but since their parents contribute to his superiors, he has to protect their safety. He also has to entertain (?) them as well. Mugi asks whether or not Kujou [the troublemaker guy] is his partner, and he replies, "Kujou? Of course that moron doesn't have anything to do with me!"
Drug Guy goes on saying, "He and Andou Masashi -- you know Andou Masashi, right? The one who used to lead that gang (?), due to him going missing, my superiors made Kujou his replacement."
Mugi wants to know who his superiors are. He says that it's people who have connections with his school. Before Mugi can ask anything more, he says he's tired of explaining anyway, since she's going to die. (WTF?) He's going to return later to see how he should go about it. After he leaves, Mugi freaks out about being murdered and how she hasn't found her sister or solved the mystery behind her parents' death yet. And how there's so much left she hasn't done yet, like given Asaki her reply to his confession. And how she said some really mean things to Kazuya...
She thinks how she's never going to see Kazuya again and starts crying, when she suddenly bursts out; "--Simply crying--isn't going to make anything better, is it?!" (I have to admit it, she's pretty kickass ^^)
Mugi tries to figure where she is and how to get out, as the only exit is locked. While throwing herself at the door, Mugi thinks about how she needs to apologize to Kazuya.
The guys are still searching for Mugi as the school intercom calls for her name. Then a girl appears and says she saw Mugi two hours ago, and how she looked like she cried. "It can't have been too long after she left me, then," Kazuya figures, and looks distressed as he mutters, "Dammit..."
Cue Mugi frenetically kicking at the door, to no avail. She's still thinking about apologizing, when she remembers Kazuya's words and becomes mad again. It strengthens her resolve to get out. Suddenly, there's a blackout. A dark-haired woman throws an eye-bind over her eyes and tells her to calm down, she's going to get out of there. (Most likely Sakuragi-sensei, I presume...)
Asaki and Kazuya start fighting as Asaki yells at him for not being worried. "Of course I'm worried about her," Kazuya retorts coolly, when Director Sakuragi shows up. The boys explain that they're looking for Mugi [as Suzuhara-sensei], and he says he just saw her at the back door and how she probably still is there.
Meanwhile, Mugi is led out by the dark-haired woman in complete silence. She asks her to take off the eye-bind, and the dark-haired woman agrees to doing so in return for her not looking behind for five seconds after taking it off, and for pretending that this never happened.
Mugi realizes she's on top of a roof, when Kazuya discovers her. She asks him to catch her, then jumps down. Drug Guy is standing nearby a church, talking to his superior over the phone who tells him that Mugi most likely have escaped and how he has disappointed them. Maddened, he says he's going to bring her back at once, but they tell him not to. Swearing, he punches the wall in frustration.
Just then a dove attacks him and a light-haired guy in a yukata appears from nowhere. Asaki and Sei confront him, and as the light-haired guy disappears again, they realize they didn't know who it was. Eijirou shows up to say that Mugi is fine and Midou found her just a while ago. Asaki reacts with a shocked face expression.
Cut to Mugi sitting on Kazuya's lap after jumping down.
Kazuya: You really... constantly fall down, huh.
Mugi: I thought you would be used to it by now.
Kazuya: You... (sweatdrop) But this whole messing around [acting impulsively] of yours, could also be seen as your good point.
You should stay the way you are.
Thank God nothing happened to you.
Mugi: (thinking: Kazuya-kun really came looking for me...)
Mugi starts crying.
Kazuya: Suzuhara?
Mugi: I'm sorry.. it seems as soon as I became relieved, I... (thinking to herself: Because I was so angry, I originally planned to scold him as soon as I saw him, but this relieved body of mine, started crying out of habit.
I really wanted Kazuya-kun to save me.)
As they embrace, she thinks: "I really hoped he would save me..."
- CHAPTER 22 END -
The chapter begins with Mugi reflecting on what has happened. It's the day of the school festival. Asaki drops by and at first, they act awkward around each other, but he offers to take her around the school festival. She objects at first, saying she's a teacher, but he tells her to enjoy herself since she's younger than him, and that she should just see it as accompanying him. She agrees and thanks him.
Cut to scene with Iori and Sei. Iori thinks of Kazuya and says, "...That's why I told you to act upon it earlier", then Sei appears. Iori tells him that if he's looking for Mugi, she's walking around with Asaki. Sei explains that that is why he is here, to waste time because if he does something now, she'll feel messed up and torn between them, and that is just too pitiful. Iori warns him that he might just be bidding his time himself. Then Iori treats him to some flavored tea and Sei wonders to himself why they [Mugi and Asaki] can't hurry and finish up already.
Meanwhile, there's an awkward silence between Mugi and Asaki as they walk around. Suddenly, a random girl faints due to a too (bright? good-looking? Something along those lines, anyway) guy. They turn around and find Kazuya being the host for an old lady in their host club-themed classroom. Mugi and Asaki exclaim, "Kazuya-kun?! / Midou?!" at the same time and thus, draw attention to themselves. Kazuya sees them and there's a tense atmosphere as Asaki tells Mugi they should go elsewhere.
However, a classmate of Asaki's appears at that time and drags him back to his own classroom as they need to prepare themselves. Kazuya excuses himself from his customer and asks Mugi if he can see her for a minute. (With Mugi saying, "Ah, does Midou-san have something to discuss with me?")
The two of them go elsewhere and start fighting. Kazuya scolds her for being too careless and going on a date in the middle of the school with a student, saying her cover will be blown. Mugi says they were just walking around and thinks to herself how it has happened before, but Kazuya is suddenly making such a big deal out of it. Then Kazuya goes ahead to badmouth Asaki about being so careless as well, and Mugi becomes mad, saying he did nothing wrong. She then retorts that Kazuya did the same with an old lady just now, and Kazuya says that that was just because they asked him to do that and he had no other option.
Then Mugi starts yelling about how he shouldn't say things like that when Asaki was just seeing things from her point of view and trying to make her feel better (or something like that), and Kazuya, angry (and jeaaalousss xD) retorts, "Of course I don't understand you! All you ever do is mess around!" [As in 'acting impulsively without thinking', not 'mess around with guys']
Then this dialogue happens (man, I love when Mugi is raging xD):
Mugi: --What's that supposed to mean... your point is, as long as I only do things you say, it'll all be fine?!
Kazuya: ...!! That's right, then things don't have to be so tiring for me!
Mugi: Why do you have to act so high and mighty?! I don't care about you anymore! Kazuya-kun is a big idiot!! (throws some random statue at his head)
Kazuya ducks and says something like, "Do you intend to kill me?!" (Lol, he reminded me of Kyouhei from Perfect Girl Evolution for a minute there)
Mugi runs away, crying, and berating Kazuya in her head for not understanding her and acting that way. She then goes ahead to glomp Shirotama (one of the doves) and starts whining about Kazuya. She suddenly overhears somebody saying, "That is just going too far! It's not like you say at all!!"
Two guys are fighting. One of them mentions he was just following orders, whereas the other one is upset since he said that his father wouldn't lend them money if he hurt their little sister and how his mother was already ill. The other guy retorts something about him being stupid.
Mugi suddenly realizes it was the guy from the fire accident who drugged her sister's acquaintance and how he was probably connected to her sister. She wonders what he's doing here when he isn't even a student of this school, and how this is bad since he probably plans to do something dangerous [as he's a dangerous person]. She tries to escape to tell somebody, but he stops her and says, "You really know how to interfere, sen...sei!"
He kicks her down when Sakuragi-sensei appears. She asks him what he plans to do about her. He retorts that he's following orders from somebody more higher-ranked than Sakuragi-san [referring to sensei's father, the director of the school board]. He says that this is a good chance of getting rid of Mugi and says (in a mocking manner), "Sorry to disturb you." Sakuragi-sensei looks troubled, cut to Asaki sitting in his classroom seeing the guy carrying away Mugi. One of his classmates remarks how it's weird that Mugi is not picking up her phone, and Asaki rushes out to where he saw Mugi being carried off. Then Sei looks out of a window and says, "Hanekura--? What's the matter?"
Kazuya is thinking about how Mugi yelled at him and keeps muttering responses to what she said to himself (I really lol'ed at this part xD) when Iori appears and calls him out. The others tell him that Mugi was kidnapped, and Asaki mentions that she was unconscious. Sei tells them the phone calls can't get through, and Kazuya mentions how she wouldn't turn off her phone, nor is there an area in school where you can't get a signal. The phone emits an automated message of how they can't connect to the user.
Meanwhile, we see a foot standing on Mugi's broken cell phone. Mugi is unconscious when the guy from before wakes her up. He introduces himself as the ex-boyfriend of the girl whom he drugged (I don't know his Japanese name, so I'll just call him Drug Guy). Drug Guy says that he originally wanted to resolve things in a calmer manner, but sensei [Mugi] just appeared at a really bad time.
Mugi demands to know his motives. Drug Guy simply answers teasingly that he has many. He hates the students of Shoukei High, but since their parents contribute to his superiors, he has to protect their safety. He also has to entertain (?) them as well. Mugi asks whether or not Kujou [the troublemaker guy] is his partner, and he replies, "Kujou? Of course that moron doesn't have anything to do with me!"
Drug Guy goes on saying, "He and Andou Masashi -- you know Andou Masashi, right? The one who used to lead that gang (?), due to him going missing, my superiors made Kujou his replacement."
Mugi wants to know who his superiors are. He says that it's people who have connections with his school. Before Mugi can ask anything more, he says he's tired of explaining anyway, since she's going to die. (WTF?) He's going to return later to see how he should go about it. After he leaves, Mugi freaks out about being murdered and how she hasn't found her sister or solved the mystery behind her parents' death yet. And how there's so much left she hasn't done yet, like given Asaki her reply to his confession. And how she said some really mean things to Kazuya...
She thinks how she's never going to see Kazuya again and starts crying, when she suddenly bursts out; "--Simply crying--isn't going to make anything better, is it?!" (I have to admit it, she's pretty kickass ^^)
Mugi tries to figure where she is and how to get out, as the only exit is locked. While throwing herself at the door, Mugi thinks about how she needs to apologize to Kazuya.
The guys are still searching for Mugi as the school intercom calls for her name. Then a girl appears and says she saw Mugi two hours ago, and how she looked like she cried. "It can't have been too long after she left me, then," Kazuya figures, and looks distressed as he mutters, "Dammit..."
Cue Mugi frenetically kicking at the door, to no avail. She's still thinking about apologizing, when she remembers Kazuya's words and becomes mad again. It strengthens her resolve to get out. Suddenly, there's a blackout. A dark-haired woman throws an eye-bind over her eyes and tells her to calm down, she's going to get out of there. (Most likely Sakuragi-sensei, I presume...)
Asaki and Kazuya start fighting as Asaki yells at him for not being worried. "Of course I'm worried about her," Kazuya retorts coolly, when Director Sakuragi shows up. The boys explain that they're looking for Mugi [as Suzuhara-sensei], and he says he just saw her at the back door and how she probably still is there.
Meanwhile, Mugi is led out by the dark-haired woman in complete silence. She asks her to take off the eye-bind, and the dark-haired woman agrees to doing so in return for her not looking behind for five seconds after taking it off, and for pretending that this never happened.
Mugi realizes she's on top of a roof, when Kazuya discovers her. She asks him to catch her, then jumps down. Drug Guy is standing nearby a church, talking to his superior over the phone who tells him that Mugi most likely have escaped and how he has disappointed them. Maddened, he says he's going to bring her back at once, but they tell him not to. Swearing, he punches the wall in frustration.
Just then a dove attacks him and a light-haired guy in a yukata appears from nowhere. Asaki and Sei confront him, and as the light-haired guy disappears again, they realize they didn't know who it was. Eijirou shows up to say that Mugi is fine and Midou found her just a while ago. Asaki reacts with a shocked face expression.
Cut to Mugi sitting on Kazuya's lap after jumping down.
Kazuya: You really... constantly fall down, huh.
Mugi: I thought you would be used to it by now.
Kazuya: You... (sweatdrop) But this whole messing around [acting impulsively] of yours, could also be seen as your good point.
You should stay the way you are.
Thank God nothing happened to you.
Mugi: (thinking: Kazuya-kun really came looking for me...)
Mugi starts crying.
Kazuya: Suzuhara?
Mugi: I'm sorry.. it seems as soon as I became relieved, I... (thinking to herself: Because I was so angry, I originally planned to scold him as soon as I saw him, but this relieved body of mine, started crying out of habit.
I really wanted Kazuya-kun to save me.)
As they embrace, she thinks: "I really hoped he would save me..."
- CHAPTER 22 END -
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